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From Andrew Roberts, author of the bestseller The Storm of War, this is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon.Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.Andrew Robertss NAPOLEON is the first one-volume biography to take advantage of the recent publication of Napoleons thirty-three thousand letters, which radically transform our understanding of his character and motivation. At last we see him as he was: protean multitasker, decisive, surprisingly willing to forgive his enemies and his errant wife Josephine. Like Churchill, he understood the strategic importance of telling his own story, and his memoirs, dictated from exile on St. Helena, became the single bestselling book of the nineteenth century.An award-winning historian, Roberts traveled to fifty-three of Napoleons sixty battle sites, discovered crucial new documents in archives, and even made the long trip by boat to St. Helena. He is as acute in his understanding of politics as he is of military history. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, insightful, beautifully written, by one of our foremost historians.

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First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd.

Map and Bonaparte family tree illustrations by John Gilkes

Other illustration credits appear .

eBook ISBN 978-0-698-17628-7

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To my siblings, Ashley Gurdon and Matthew and Eliot Roberts

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Jacques-Louis David, sketches of Napoleon, 1797 . Musee dArt et dHistoire, Palais Massna, Nice. Photograph: Giraudon / Bridgeman Images

Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon, title page of The Description of Egypt, 1809 . Photograph: akg-images / Pietro Baguzzi

Charles-Joseph Minard, Graph to illustrate the successive losses in men of the French army in the Russian Campaign of 1812 , pub. 1869 . Photograph: Bibliothque Nationale, Paris

Svres Manufactory after Antoine Denis Chaudet, Bust of Emperor Napoleon I, 1806 . Bibliothque Marmottan, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris. Photograph: Giraudon / Bridgeman Images

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Andrea Appiani the Elder, Napoleon I Bonaparte , 1796 . Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Photograph: De Agostini Picture Library / Veneranda Biblioteca AmbrosianaMilano / Bridgeman Images

Lonard-Alexis Dalig de Fontenay, The Casa Bonaparte in Ajaccio , 1849 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (muse des chteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Prau) / Jean Schormans

Caricature of Paoli and Bonaparte, from the atlas of a student named Vagoudy, c . 1785 . Photograph: Archives Nationales, Paris

Louis-Franois Lejeune, The Battle of Lodi , c . 1804 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Daniel Arnaudet / Grard Blot

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon on the Bridge at Arcole , 1796 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Grard Blot

Louis-Franois Lejeune, The Battle of the Pyramids , 1806 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Grard Blot

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon visiting the wounded at Jaffa , 1804 (detail). Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (muse du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage

I. Helman and J. Duplessi-Bertaux after Charles Monnet, The Coup dtat of Brumaire 1799 , published 1800 . Photograph Bibliothque Nationale de France, Paris

Franois-Xavier Fabre, portrait of Lucien Bonaparte. Photograph: The Art Archive / Napoleonic Museum Rome / Gianni Dagli Orti

Jean-Baptiste Wicar, portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, 1808 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Fontainebleau) / Grard Blot

Baron Franois Grard, portrait of Marie-Laetitia Ramolino (detail), 1803 . Photograph RMN -Grand Palais (muse des chteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Prau) / Daniel Arnaudet / Jean Schormans

Salomon-Guillaume Counis, portrait of Marie-Anne Elisa Bonaparte, 1813 . Photograph RMN -Grand Palais (muse du Louvre) / Grard Blot

Charles Howard Hodges, portrait of Louis Bonaparte (detail), 1809 . Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Baron Franois Grard, portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais. Private collection. Photograph: Bridgeman Images

Robert Lefvre, portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, 1806 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Droits rservs

Baron Franois Grard, portrait of Caroline Murat, 1800 s. Muse des Beaux-Arts, Palais Fesch, Ajaccio. Photograph RMN -Grand Palais / Grard Blot

Franois Kinson, portrait of Jrme Bonaparte and his wife Catarina of Wrttemberg. Photograph: RMN-Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Franck Raux

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, portrait of the Empress Josephine, c . 1809 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (muse des chteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Prau) / Daniel Arnaudet / Grard Blot

Andrea Appiani the Elder, portrait of Eugne de Beauharnais, 1810 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (muse des chteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Prau) / Daniel Arnaudet / Jean Schormans

Ncessaire of the Empress Josephine, made by Flix Remond. Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (muse des chteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Prau) / Grard Blot

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon as First Consul . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais / Grard Blot

French School, Allegory of the Concordat , 1802 . Bibliothque Nationale, Paris. Photograph: Bridgeman Images

Louis Charon after Poisson, Costume of a Member of the Institut de France , c . 1802 . Private collection. Photograph: Archives Charmet / Bridgeman Images

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, portrait of Jean-Jacques de Cambacrs. Photograph: RMN-Grand Palais / Agence Bulloz

Andrea Appiani the Elder, Louis-Charles-Antoine Desaix reading the order of General Bonaparte to two Egyptians . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Grard Blot

Baron Franois Grard, portrait of Jean Lannes. Private collection. Photograph: Giraudon / Bridgeman Images

Henri-Franois Riesener (after), portrait of Jean-Baptiste Bessires, 1805 . Photograph ParisMuse de lArme, Dist. RMN -Grand Palais / image muse de lArme

Anne-Louis Girodet De Roussy-Trioson, portrait of Graud Christophe Michel Duroc. Muse Bonnat, Bayonne. Photograph RMN -Grand Palais / Ren-Gabriel Ojda

French School, caricature of William Pitt the Younger and King George III observing the French squadron, 1803 . Muse de la Ville de Paris, Muse Carnavalet, Paris. Photograph: Giraudon / Bridgeman Images

Copy by Mudie of a Napoleonic medal celebrating the planned invasion of Britain, 1804 . Photograph Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Jean-Baptiste Debret, The First Distribution of the Cross of the Lgion dHonneur , July 1804 , 1812 . Photograph RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Droits rservs

Jacques-Louis David, study of Napoleon crowning himself Emperor, c . 1804 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (muse du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage

Baron Franois Grard, The Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805, 1808. Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Droits rservs

Pierre-Michel Alix after Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, portrait of Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, 1798 . Photograph ParisMuse de lArme, Dist. RMN -Grand Palais / Pascal Segrette

Flavie Renault after Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, portrait of Marshal Andr Massna, 1834 . Photograph: ParisMuse de lArme, Dist. RMN -Grand Palais / image muse de lArme

Baron Franois Grard, portrait of Marshal Michel Ney, c . 1805 . Photograph: Christies Images

Louis Henri de Rudder, portrait of Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult (detail). Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Franck Raux

Tito Marzocchi de Belluchi, portrait of Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout (detail), 1852 . Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Grard Blot

Raymond-Quinsac Monvoison, portrait of Nicolas-Charles Oudinot as he appeared in 1792. Photograph: RMN -Grand Palais (Chteau de Versailles) / Daniel Arnaudet / Jean Schormans

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